High school has sports and activities though. I know many families that use the sports team as if it were a day care. If they do sports the kids usually get out somewhere between 4:30 and 5:30. Where I live now, a lot of the high schoolers are in school 7:30-5:30. It’s pretty ridiculous, since they also have homework. Many high schools seem to be in the process of transforming themselves into juvenile prisons designed to keep teenagers away from the rest of society.

It must be a fairly low portion of high school students who do after-school activities every single day, right?

Sports can happen before school

It’s not an analogy. One of school’s main purposes along with sorting and ranking and reducing their tendency to creativity and independent thought is day care.

and getting them to sitdown, shut up and follow instructions without questioning the boss.

This is a bit anti-DEI. Special needs and kids with behavioral issues do need that. Now they would need it twice a day.